Recently, the  proprietary Project Planning and Control System (PPCS) developed by SNEI was  officially put into service in Saudi Aramco Hydrocracking Project.

In order to  tailor to the Client Technip’s management requirements for pipe welding quality  control, pipe section management and pipe construction progress measurement, and  with concerted efforts by SNEI and concerned departments and personnel from the  project management team, final functional revisions were finished on March 16,  2011 and on March 20, 2011 it successfully passed the system testing performed  by the Owner’s personnel from the piping discipline and planning & control  discipline, and it was positively recognized by the Owner.

On April 2,  isometric diagram data and weld data were imported to the PPCS to establish the  basic database, which marked the official launch of the PPCS in Saudi Aramco  Hydrocracking Project. As of April 20, totally 3,305 isometric diagrams, 6,740  pipe sections, 26,267 welds have been imported into the system. Total weld is  121,055.25 inches.

After the system  database was established and launched, the PPCS has been providing the Owner  with weekly piping workload report, piping progress database and inquiry of  piping data within the project, which provided strong data support for progress  measurement and pipe construction management for the Owner and the project  management team. From start of the pipe welding work, the PPCS will also provide  pipe welding quality control for the entire project, and overall control data  about welder qualification rate, NDT, material tracing, etc. As the piping work  gets into full swing, the PPCS will become the core of piping construction  quality and progress management of the project.